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CVE-2003-1072

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-1072 describes a memory leak vulnerability in the lofiadm utility within Solaris 8 and SunOS. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger a denial of service by consuming kernel memory. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a low severity, as it requires local access and only results in a partial denial of service. There is no known active exploitation, nor is there publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB. Despite its age and low severity, the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, primarily on GitHub, suggesting some level of historical interest or tracking.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*
5.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
25.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0033 is in the 18th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/8686
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/11895
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/7454